Long before she became known as the mother of the 32nd president of the United States, Sara Delano Roosevelt was a presence in the Hudson Valley. Her family lived in an Italianate mansion in ...

Alex Brandon - AP ) Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt received this six-story Manhattan townhouse as a gift in 1908 from FDR’s mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt. It’s now the Roosevelt House Public ...

Sara Delano was quite a catch for James Roosevelt when he wound up his whirlwind courtship and married her in 1880. She was a handsome, hazel-eyed girl of 26, just half James Roosevelt’s age.

PASSIONATE MOTHERS, POWERFUL SONS: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt. By Charlotte Gray. Simon and Schuster. 432 pages. $29.99. Reams have been written about Winston ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born January 30, 1882, the only son of wealthy parents James and Sara Delano Roosevelt (although his father had a son from a previous marriage). Roosevelt began studying ...

In that sense, both biographies deal with women of unconstrained ambition. Both Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt, born into privilege — the former a social and political operator, and ...